Frog Caviar: delicacy, medicine and coral

Delicacies are different, depending on the accepted conventions of a particular state or people. And frog caviar in some countries is considered the same festive yummy as red and black caviar of sturgeons and salmonids in Russia.

It's worth it?

Today in the food market you can find all sorts of delicacies, some of them a few decades ago people knew only by hearsay. And today, if you want, you can serve any dish to the table, frog eggs will not be an exception. Delicacies are all expensive. This is due to their low availability. So, one frog lays only about 2 grams of caviar. It is easy to calculate the amount of caviar from how many amphibians you need to assemble to make a 100-gram jar. Very often frog eggs are extracted by poachers, destroying the inhabitants of reservoirs underwater explosions. Obtained in such a barbaric way caviar unscrupulous suppliers are often issued for caviar of sturgeon, it is artificially tinted, giving a shade of red.

Frogs and corals

Sometimes you can find the phrase "euphilia frog caviar". If you do not go into details, you might think that euphilia is the scientific name for amphibian caviar. But in fact, this beautiful word is called a variety of coral, and the frog eggs in this name has only the value of visual similarity. Corals, reminiscent of the appearance of future offspring of frogs, live in warm tropical and equatorial ocean waters. By the way, corals are not plants, as some think, but living things. A beautiful name has several varieties of polyps - euphylia hammer, torch, paranorm and branched - "frog caviar". A distinctive feature of the coral, reminiscent of the offspring of amphibians in appearance, is that it fluoresces in the dark. A beautiful living being is another amazing mystery of our planet.

How's the medicine?

In some countries, for a long time, frog eggs had a special significance, as a magic and medicinal product. And to this day, folk healers collect it in the spring, lined a thin layer on the fabric, dried, and then in this form is applied to the erysipelas of the skin, as an anti-inflammatory. This, perhaps, is the only disease in the treatment of which folk medicine uses caviar of frogs. However, according to some scientists, frog caviar, whose useful properties have not been sufficiently studied, can exert some influence on cells of the human body, comparable to the action of human stem cells. That is, it is assumed that, using the future offspring of amphibians, one can make human cells rejuvenate, fighting aging and disease. These developments are likely to continue, although skeptics predict all attempts to make the frog eggs from a frog fast failure.

But how to distinguish one from another?

In principle, all the eggs of all living things that receive offspring in this way are somewhat similar - a shell that is transparent or has some shade, reliably protects the nascent life. And what does frog caviar look like? Species of tailless amphibians, which are commonly called in the everyday life - frogs, are many. And, accordingly, the caviar of each species will be slightly different. But in general terms, frog caviar is a gelatin capsule that lets oxygen and carbon dioxide swell in water. Inside it is the embryo, which has a black or brown color. The capsule in water retains all the useful substances that allow the fetus to evolve into a tadpole - the baby frog. Different amphibians lay their eggs in different ways: someone on the leaves of plants, someone digs their future offspring one egg at a wet land, and some frog-mothers wear a brood on their backs. In nature, it is very difficult to confuse amphibian caviar with the caviar of some other species of living things that grow their offspring in this way. But on the shelves of the store very often frog's caviar, dyed with dyes, salted, suddenly becomes caviar of valuable fish species.

Frogs are amazing creatures, they are spread all over the planet, but people sometimes think little about how much good they bring. Nature has created a lot of amazing living beings. And the task of man is to save all these natural jewels.